This is volume 1 in an ongoing YGLS series regarding questions we have sent to The Sports Guy and have gotten no response on.
In the impossibly great movie Hoosiers, there is a line that makes no sense.
Coach Dale says "Cletus?-?"
Cletus responds "Hmm?"
Dale - "What are you doing down there?" [sort of sitting down near a wall]
Cletus responds: "Floatin'."
Coach Dale then moves on and the viewer is left to assume that Coach Dale knows what "floatin'" is too.
I've e-mailed Simmons. A friend and I perhaps illegally* found addresses for Gene Hackman and screenwriter Angelo Pizzo, and wrote them letters too. I've talked to people, on the Internet and in person, from Indiana...even people from Muncie, Indiana. None of them have any idea what Cletus means by saying he's "floatin". I've had people on Internet message boards ask their dad who once drank with Bobby Plump what "floatin" means.
They have various guesses that Cletus is hung over, confused, Jonsening for a drink, tired, lost in thought, or napping. But there is really no explanation that more than one or two people have guessed. No consensus. Why was he on the floor? What was he doing? What is "floatin'"?
So Hoosiers is your favorite movie, Sports Guy. Therefore,
ANSWER MY QUESTION, BILL SIMMONS!
*Dear legal authorities, I didn't do anything illegal.
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